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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Barbara Bush

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Barbara Bush
Age: 92 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 8
Died: 2018
Died: April 17
Former First Lady Of The United States
Politician
Manhattan borough
New York City
Barbara Pierce Bush
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Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.
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As if we don't have enough volence on television. After her husband accidentally hit two spectators with golf balls during a celebrity golf tournament.
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